Vietnam map above a rowboat with two people in conical hats among Ha Long Bay limestone rocks

Rowboat in Ha Long Bay with Vietnam Map

Two rowers in conical hats guide a covered wooden boat through Ha Long Bay, with Vietnam’s long map floating above the cliffs.

Free to print for personal and classroom use. This coloring page is part of the Country collection, made for ages 5–7 and drawn in a Standard style.

🎨 How to color it

Color the Vietnam map bright red, the limestone towers sandy beige, the bay blue-green, and the boat’s curved roof warm yellow. Use chunky crayons or markers for the big water and sky spaces, then switch to a sharper pencil for the thin oars and little ripple lines. Try making the tall rocks darker at the bottom and lighter at the top, as if morning mist is lifting off the bay.

🔢 How this color by number works

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Find each number in the key and fill its zone: 39 zones and 7 colors, sized for kids. Tiny unnumbered slivers borrow the color of their neighbors, and the little model above shows the finished page whenever you want to check your work. More grids like this live in our color by number gallery.

Prefer classic line art? Open this drawing as a regular coloring page.

The story behind this coloring page

Why Vietnam Curves Like a Dragon — Under the hush-hush cliffs, Bao dipped his grandfather’s plain fishhook into green water. Read the full story →

Under the hush-hush cliffs, Bao dipped his grandfather’s plain fishhook into green water. He was not fishing for dinner; he wanted to catch the tiny pearl-bubbles that popped at dawn, because Grandfather said they knew old secrets. Plip, plip, plip! The bubbles made a silver trail between the stone towers.

Bao rowed after them with Aunt Linh, and the air smelled salty and warm. Suddenly the hook tugged—not down, but forward. “Don’t pull hard,” whispered Aunt Linh. “Follow.” The hook drew a long swoop through the bay, then curled like a dragon’s tail. The cliffs rumbled softly, and the land copied that shining curve.

Ever since, Vietnam has kept that dragon bend beside the sea. If you trace the floating country shape with your finger, can you find the curve Bao followed from the first plip?